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FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Russian Hacker
mpicpp sends word that the FBI and the U.S. State Department have announced the largest-ever reward for a computer hacking case. They're offering up to $3 million for information leading to the arrest of Evgeniy Bogachev, a 31-year-old Russian national. Bogachev is the alleged administrator of the GameOver Zeus botnet, estimated to have affected over a million computers, causing roughly $100 million in damages. "Bogachev has been charged by federal authorities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering... He also faces federal bank fraud conspiracy charges in Omaha, Nebraska related to his alleged involvement in an earlier variant of Zeus malware known as 'Jabber Zeus.'"
your laws don't apply to non americans
If so, the Russian Mafia might just take the FBI up on that $3M offer....
Just sayin'.
High end estimates of the damage done to America's cloud computing industry alone run to $180 billion. Can we get the FBI to offer a reward for Gen. Alexander and company?
Steal from US corporations, the US govt. will pay to catch you... with the US people's tax money.
Democracy and Freedom, American style!
Hey Slashdot admins, WHY WON'T YOU ENABLE SSL?
Your shitty website has been targeted by the NSA in the past, FIX YOUR SHIT!
Trumps, "I spent x years in prison"
In cases like this 10% is the standard.
Which suggests that FBI has weak evidence, no more than "hear say" in the court.
The "List of Vanities" the FBI dangles in the wind, the FBI is itself, GUILTY.
So, 10% old boy or you are sucking a dry "Tough" tittie.
FU
That would be quite a feeling, to have total control over a _million_ computers. I can't even fathom it.
All I can think of is that we'll soon be finding aliens because I'd make them all burn SETI@Home at full tilt. That many FFTs at once would become a world record that would never be broken.
The Slashdot bloodhounds are hot on the trail!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
They want to hire him, not send him to prison. Well, or force him to work for them. You know, good American things.
Be seeing you...
Bogachev has been charged by federal authorities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering... He also faces federal bank fraud conspiracy charges in Omaha, Nebraska
Difference between banker and this guy: the computer hacking charges, and that he wasn't given tons of money for destroying our economy.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
So I guess he shared a movie online somewhere...
Spot on. As an ex-banking industry employee that dealt with these crooks, the bankers and this hacker are cut from the same clothe.
I mean really, who does he think he is? How dare someone other than the U.S. government hack into our computers?
USA has no jurisdiction past its own borders. Perhaps they should charge NSA for causing more than $100 million in direct sales damages to U.S. based companies? From routers to harddisks, from motherboards to USB flash drives, from CPUs to modems, this domestic perpetrator caused more damage world-wide and yet no-one dares to bring them to justice?! Strange days we live in these times.
He is a Russian agent.
Conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering - that's what the NSA is charged with....hang on. That's not right. The NSA hacks Americans but is charged with nothing.
By biggest hacker you mean APART from the USA government, right?
Just checking.
Merkins only count FOREIGNERS as criminals, 'cos Merkins are Good Guys (tm), therefore anything THEY do is right and proper and moral By DEFINITION.
FBI walks into hacker's hideout. "It's Gameover, Zeus," says the lead agent to a scrawny man sitting at a dumb terminal.
Anyone know how the FBI/others know it was him? I mean, he's been charged, presumably whilst absent, so there must be some 'damning' evidence of some sort. It's easy to say "we traced some connections to his house in Meerkovo", but how on earth did they do such a thing, and how can they be sure that it was actually him? I mean, wouldn't he have covered his tracks pretty comprehensively? I presume they (also?) found him lurking on some IRC channels or some such, but again, how would they know it was really him?
I dare say a lot of the methods they use are secret (eg. the NSA methods), but surely the principles of them must be public record if they've been used on anyone else.
"Bogachev is the alleged administrator of the GameOver Zeus botnet, estimated to have affected over a million computers"
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Hey Soulskill, what class of ' computers ' did this botnet infect? Don't hesitate to name Operating System platforms, such as Apple OS X, Linux or Android
"Starting in September of 2011, the FBI began investigating a modified version of the Zeus Trojan, known as GameOver Zeus (GOZ)"
What the fuck would the FBI know about 'computer' hacking.
I wonder what the legal precedent/process is for turning yourself in for the reward?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
What a hypocrisy game u.s is playing here. So it's okay for NSA to infect foreign computers to cause damage but not okay when it's the other way around? This country as a whole behaves like a sociopath which is no surprise, like we are the center of the fucking universe. Is anything going to be done about the Chicago police black site(running for 40 years) that's operated on behalf of the fbi? NOPE! Law enforcement will keep abusing peoples natural rights. Andrew Cuomo stated it's laws that define our rights and if so why is the government not respecting the laws(constitution) then?
Sorry, but governments and societies don't work and will never work you will always have the few controlling the rest of us. It's basically for suckers who lose their right to self preservation and right to live their life the way they see fit. It's a fucking feudal system.
I could only find information of window systems being infected not linux. I know my asus router with the updated linux firmware(heartbleed fix) with easily hacked so i had to install DD-WRT. I guess no OS(kernel) on the desktop and embedded in hardware is safe.
CNN is running with the story:
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/terror-threat-homeland-security/&sa=U&ei=-h_uVP7FBpDtoASTyICABA&ved=0CBQQqQIoADAA&usg=AFQjCNE_jOJuqUbtJvxk2Jj1mF_agFvqVA
Coming from DHS, I would say their "report" is Black racists code-words to scare inner-city people.
Perhaps he could make even more money by suing for copyright infringement all those who downloaded his software illegally? I bet many of the "victims" didn't pay botnet membership fees either. Anything should be possible in the land of opportunities, right Murica?
Computer forensics is a fraud. It's pure and simple. They don't know. At best they have a shit-ton of evidence that makes them believe he probably did it. Any certainty though is far from the grasp of government. Government need just be "good enough" and if the person didn't do it no harm done (in the eyes of the persecutor(s), ie they'll go home at the end of the day either way never having to face up to the fact they lied, cheated, and took more unethical actions than those they're going after).
I think the "Russian" part complicates the issue here.
not when putin and mother russia has his back
you sure are a fear-mongering mind controlled fuck boi slave
Great point. It's a shitty system, yet still and all it's better than Putin's Russia.